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| N V SwindaleSummaryAffiliation: University of British Columbia Country: Canada Publications
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Automated analysis of normal and glaucomatous optic nerve head topography imagesN V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 41:1730-42. 2000..To classify images of optic nerve head (ONH) topography obtained by scanning laser ophthalmoscopy as normal or glaucomatous without prior manual outlining of the optic disc...- Visual cortex: more wiggle room for the brainNicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St, Vancouver, V5Z 3N9, British Columbia, Canada
Curr Biol 17:R1055-7. 2007..Experiments in which one eye of a ferret is removed at birth show subtle effects on the development of visual cortex maps that are in agreement with those predicted by theory... - Feedback decoding of spatially structured population activity in cortical mapsNicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 3N9
Neural Comput 20:176-204. 2008.... - Cerebral cortex: the singular precision of visual cortex mapsNicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St, Vancouver, V5Z 3N9, British Columbia, Canada
Curr Biol 16:R991-4. 2006..A remarkable new technique, two-photon confocal fluorescence microscopy, has revealed an extraordinarily precise organization in the visual cortex. The methodology seems set to become the tool of choice for studying cortical maps... - How different feature spaces may be represented in cortical mapsN V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 3N9, Canada
Network 15:217-42. 2004..Deviations from uniform retinotopy often led to improved coverage... - Neural synchrony, axonal path lengths, and general anesthesia: a hypothesisNicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Neuroscientist 9:440-5. 2003..This simple and testable theory explains why anesthetics interfere selectively with higher cognitive functions but leave those dominated by rate-based firing relatively intact... - The spatial pattern of response magnitude and selectivity for orientation and direction in cat visual cortexNicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 3N9
Cereb Cortex 13:225-38. 2003..Orientation and direction preference angles are always closely orthogonal. Reversals in direction preference form lines that originate precisely in orientation singularities... - Reply to Carreira-Perpiñán and Goodhill. Are visual cortex maps optimized for coverage?Nicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C, V5Z 3N9
Neural Comput 14:2053-6. 2002 - Visual cortex maps are optimized for uniform coverageN V Swindale
Dept of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St, Vancouver, B C, V5Z 3N9, Canada
Nat Neurosci 3:822-6. 2000..This suggests that coverage optimization is an important organizing principle governing cortical map development... - A model for the thick, thin and pale stripe organization of primate V2Nicholas V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 3N9
Network 18:327-42. 2007..In addition it predicts the presence of reversals in the direction of mapping of retinal eccentricity which should be more common in the pale stripes than elsewhere... - Polytrodes: high-density silicon electrode arrays for large-scale multiunit recordingTimothy J Blanche
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3N9, Canada
J Neurophysiol 93:2987-3000. 2005..It was possible to maintain stable recordings from active neurons adjacent to the polytrode without change in their absolute positions, neurophysiological or receptive field properties... - How many maps are there in visual cortex?N V Swindale
Department of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 3N9
Cereb Cortex 10:633-43. 2000..A higher limit, of about nine or ten, may be imposed by the numbers of neurons (or minicolumns) available to represent each of 2(N) features within a given small region of cortex... - Retinal wave behavior through activity-dependent refractory periodsKeith B Godfrey
Department of Opthamology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PLoS Comput Biol 3:e245. 2007..The principles described here are very general and may be adaptable to the description of spontaneous wave activity in other areas of the nervous system... - Nyquist interpolation improves neuron yield in multiunit recordingsTimothy J Blanche
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada
J Neurosci Methods 155:81-91. 2006..A practical benefit, especially for large electrode arrays, is that the bandwidth and storage requirements can be greatly reduced by using data acquisition rates at or slightly above the Nyquist frequency...